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Perry Local School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Perry Local School District, measured against Perry Local School District's own big snow morning of 2.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Perry Local School District close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Massillon.
Ten winters of school mornings

Perry Local School District’s snow record

38inches of snow a winter
3.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
2.5 ina big snow morning in Perry Local School District: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 72% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

2.3Nov
7.8Dec
14Jan
7.8Feb
4.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.5 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 53.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 9 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The Ohio rule

How Ohio counts a lost day

Ohio requires hours, not days: 910 hours for full day kindergarten through grade 6, 1,001 hours for grades 7 to 12, 455 for half day kindergarten. Only hours that drop a school below the state minimum must be made up, by extending the school year.

The Ohio rules in the agency’s own words, and every Ohio district

Next door

Districts near Perry Local School District

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Massillon City School DistrictMassillon38 in1
Canton City School DistrictCanton38 in1
Canton Local School DistrictCanton38 in1
Jackson Local School DistrictMassillon38 in1
Plain Local School DistrictCanton38 in1
North Canton City School DistrictNorth Canton38 in1
The schools

8 schools

Every school in Perry Local School District follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Perry High School

Middle

  • Edison Middle School
  • Pfeiffer Intermediate School

Elementary

  • T C Knapp Elementary School, Canton
  • Whipple Heights Elementary School, Canton
  • Watson Elementary School
  • Genoa Elementary School
  • Lohr Elementary School, Navarre
Questions

Perry Local School District snow day questions

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More winter

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.